Table 6. Cause of death by five year age band and residential home as place of death.
CoD | Residential Care Home PoD by Five Year Age Bands | |||||||||
80–84 Yearsn = 55,916 | 85–89 Yearsn = 86,325 | 90–94 Yearsn = 89,742 | 95–99 Yearsn = 48,610 | 100+ Yearsn = 12,369 | ||||||
Percent | (95% CI) | Percent | (95% CI) | Percent | (95% CI) | Percent | (95% CI) | Percent | (95% CI) | |
Pneumonia | 6.9 | 6.7–7.1 | 8.9 | 8.7–9.0 | 11.6 | 11.4–11.8 | 14.3 | 14.0–14.6 | 16.6 | 15.9–17.2 |
Cerebro-vascular | 17.0 | 16.7–17.3 | 16.4 | 16.2–16.7 | 14.8 | 14.5–15.0 | 12.3 | 12.0–12.6 | 9.1 | 8.6–9.6 |
Circulatory | 7.7 | 7.5–7.9 | 8.9 | 8.7–9.1 | 9.9 | 9.7–10.1 | 9.9 | 9.7–10.2 | 8.9 | 8.4–9.4 |
IHD | 12.7 | 12.5–13.0 | 12.7 | 12.5–12.9 | 12.0 | 11.8–12.2 | 10.2 | 9.9–10.4 | 7.0 | 6.5–7.4 |
Respiratory (others) | 8.0 | 7.8–8.2 | 7.4 | 7.2–7.6 | 6.4 | 6.2–6.6 | 6.0 | 5.7–6.2 | 5.7 | 5.3–6.1 |
Dementia and AD | 15.7 | 15.4–16.0 | 15.9 | 15.7–16.2 | 14.0 | 13.8–14.3 | 11.8 | 11.5–12.1 | 6.3 | 5.9–6.7 |
Cancer | 16.8 | 16.5–17.1 | 13.1 | 12.9–13.3 | 9.5 | 9.3–9.7 | 6.9 | 6.7–7.1 | 4.0 | 3.6–4.3 |
“Old age”/frailty | 3.2 | 3.1–3.4 | 6.1 | 6.0–6.3 | 12.4 | 12.2–12.6 | 20.3 | 19.9–20.7 | 35.9 | 35.1–36.8 |
Other | 12.0 | 11.7–12.2 | 10.5 | 10.3–10.7 | 9.5 | 9.3–9.7 | 8.4 | 8.1–8.6 | 6.6 | 6.2–7.1 |
AD, Alzheimer disease; CoD, cause of death; IHD, ischaemic heart disease; PoD, place of death.